Like most Democrats with power, they can appear to be very lenient when things go their way. When things don’t go their way…

Trump appoints an Attorney General. The Attorney General then can appoint a special prosecutor based on recommendations from the FBI. So if Trump gets an AG who clears house of the demo operatives in the DoJ and FBI, given the uprising from agents on the ground in the FBI it will naturally progress to a recommendation to appoint.

All Trump then has to do is stand back, shrug his shoulders and state that the AG is independent, and it would be inappropriate to interfere with that independence.

As they say, trump is playing 4D chess while the media is playing tic tac toe.

They are just the hired help and their little empire is already crumbling because they have no influence to peddle.

I’d rather see a Trump Justice Department and the Congress go hammer and tongs on George Soros and the rest of the rabble rousing, bloody handed financiopaths at the Democracy Alliance.

These are the guys sending rent a mobs out to riot, destroy private property and even kill people, usually in overwhelming Democrat controlled metro areas where the police have had their hands tired by elected officials sympathetic to the cause.

There is obvious collusion going all the way up to the DoJ and the Executive Branch in all of this.

It started with the astroturfed Occupy Wall Street movement and continues to this day with Black Lives Matter and the Trump protests.

If that isn’t a RICO investigation looking for a place to land, I don’t know what is.

Preet Bohara, call your office.

Heard that part so many times here as the reason we should all vote for trump.

Got a lot of jeers and mockery when I said I doubted he’s the guy to do it.

Be prepared for more disappointment, as the onion of theatrical remonstration of lies gets pealed back.

It is always possible to rationalize a lie. In fact, some big liars convince themselves that their lies are the truth, even though they know better.

If I don’t know whether I’m going to do something—if I might do it, but I have huge doubts about it—it’s a lie to say I’m going to do it.

If I’m 50/50 on prosecuting Hillary Clinton, I don’t have rallies where I chant with many thousands of people, “Lock her up!” and promise to do so. I don’t hold it out to the public that I have every intention of doing so when I don’t.

Now, politicians certainly do that sort of thing. But it’s a lie.

Personally, I don’t think that Trump ever had any intention of prosecuting her. Among other things, she’s an old friend of his, as is Bill. I think he lied, period, and unequivocally. But even if your theory is right and he thought “well, perhaps I will, it’s a possibility of some sort,” that’s not the way he portrayed it.

But “maybe, perhaps, I’ll push for prosecuting her” doesn’t go over very big at rallies, does it?

Long ago I said that ALL of Trump’s positions are mutable. That means he can say anything, and it’s not a lie? That’s absurd. If they are all mutable, it’s a lie to act as though your mind is made up and you will follow through. Trump is a wily guy, and he knows what he’s doing.

Neo, I’m pretty sure by your own definition Trump is not “lying” — whenever he says he WILL do something he means he MIGHT do that thing, under the right situation.

You say: “it’s lying when you say the equivalent of “this is what I am going to do, this is what I plan to do” when you actually know as you say it that you do not plan to do it and will not do it. <<

I am consistently of the belief that Trump does NOT know what, exactly, he will do or even plans to do in the near, mid, nor far future — and he almost never knows what he will not do.

Or perhaps he has a) plan to do this, and simultaneously, with different circumstances, b) plan to NOT do this. So at one time, he says his plan is a), at another time he says his plan is b). In both cases his real plan is "depending on the situation", but he's not gonna confuse us with accurate or complete details about when it's plan a, or when plan b.

ALL of his promises are … negotiating positions.

This is different than "I am against gay marriage" — but then favoring it.
It is different than "You can keep your doctor", when the speaker knows the proposed policy won't allow you to keep your doctor.

Hmm, maybe it really IS about the same as having an "evolved" position on gay marriage. And even have that evolution vacillate a few times.

Plus, I have no doubt that, once Trump does have power, there will be many similar lies to the "You can keep your doctor", but those lies do seem to me different than having multiple possible plans and, for different groups, stating different plans.

Let's remember — every Dem senator supported to accept Pres. Clinton in perjury, lying about what he did, under oath. Trump's lies haven't yet come close to this – tho I fear and even expect him to descend to that low level.

I'm still happy Clinton lost — and hope somebody in gov't prosecutes her seriously, and fairly.

It’s a good sign he does.